CS 3041 - Blooper Examples

From Jeff Johnson's book GUI Bloopers.

[Examples originally selected and prepared by Prof Matt Ward and his TAs]

• Blooper 1: Dynamic Menus
• Blooper 28: Poor Label Placement
• Blooper 6: Features Exclusively on Toolbar Buttons
• Blooper 45: The "TTY GUI"
• Blooper 53: Too Many Dialogs
• Blooper 11: Using Command Buttons as Toggles
• Blooper 16: Not showing busy cursor
• Blooper 22: Poor initial window location
• Blooper 35: Speaking Geek
• Blooper 26: Radiobuttons spaced too far
• Blooper 25: Inconsistent Separator Style
• Blooper 9: One-from-N settings with no initial value
• Blooper 18: Overusing Text Fields
• Blooper 24: Inconsistent Group Box Style
• Blooper 15: Ambiguous Selections
• Blooper 33: Inconsistent Terminology
• Blooper 49: Instructions that go away too soon
• Blooper 54: Dialog boxes that trap users
• Blooper 41: Same title on different windows
• Blooper 3: Hidden functions
• Blooper 5: Confusing primary windows with dialog boxes